The topographic imprint of a transient climate episode: The western Andean flank between 15·5° and 41·5°S

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1516-1534

  Rehak, K ^a,b   Bookhagen, B ^c,d   Strecker, M R ^a   Echtler, H P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate; Drainage basins; Erosion; Topography; Transient landscape

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CLIMATE; CLIMATE PARAMETERS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC EPISODES; CLIMATIC ZONE; DATA SETS; DRAINAGE BASINS; DRAINAGE DENSITY; FLUVIAL EROSION; GLACIAL EROSION; HILLSLOPES; MOUNTAIN BELTS; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; SNOWLINE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRANSIENT COMPONENTS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASUREMENT MISSIONS;

CATCHMENTS; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; SECURITY OF DATA; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERT; DRAINAGE BASIN; EROSION; GLACIER; MOUNTAIN; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RELIEF; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED; WESTERLY;

ANDES;

EID: 78649487459     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1992     Document Type: Article

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